Word: member
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Cabinet's only unmarried member had taken the wise women of Washington by surprise. They had known that an earnest, athletic girl, sister of the wife of his late stepson Wilmarth, had visited in his Washington home on and off since 1935. She had worked at small jobs in the Interior, helped run his empty home for him, accompanied him to social functions, helped him select and decorate his country place, "Headwater Farm" near Olney, Md. During his illness last year she visited his hospital bedside almost daily. Their relationship had seemed like that of father & daughter...
...ticket for him on the Normandie in the name of "R. G. Sucher."*At sailing time, "R. G. Sucher" was aboard but not in evidence. At Dublin he slipped ashore unrecognized, and two hours later was saying "I do" in a little Presbyterian church on Adelaide Road. A member of the U. S. Legation was his best man. He resumed his own name for the ceremony but the clergyman did not twig...
...Congress in appropriating for the relief of the underprivileged never intended that those funds should be utilized to slaughter a member of this body. . . . Has the Congress builded a Frankenstein over which it has no control?* Is this a robot which is to trample roughshod over its creators, just because one of the cogs or buttons that animate it does not like the color of a Senator's hair...
...Wendell Prize, established in memory of Barrett Wendell '77, the first chairman of the Committee, is given to the member of the Sophomore class who has made the most notable progress during the year. Winners now in College are Arthur W. Schlesinger, Jr. '38 and Edouard Sandoz...
...coming son of a grocery man (Cary Grant). The part of Linda is just made for Miss Hepburn, who turns in a delightful and talented performance. Cary Grant is adequate while Edward Everett Horton shoulders the burden of the comic entertainment. Despite the efforts of each member of the cast, however, the whole effect is not convincing and wavers uncertainly between seriousness and humor...